For those who don’t know, today is Robyn’s last day at her job. With plans not to go back for at least a year, can I say how proud of her I am? Seriously. This woman is likely the most work-committed person I have ever known. Now, things have changed over the last few years with Robyn stepping down from management, but her commitment to standards of service and food safety and a-whole-lot-of-stuff-that-too-many-people-throw-an-eyeroll-at has not changed. She has always been over the top dedicated as far as I’m concerned. At one point, we were not sure how we were possibly going to be able to get pregnant because of her level of engagement in her restaurant.
All of the timing worked in our favor though, and we’re here now. I can’t stop myself from thinking about when Robyn and I first starting seeing each other, though. At that point she was an Associate Manager in a restaurant in Jacksonville, and we lived on the east coast. She told me “I’m relocatable to anywhere in the state of Florida and I’ll move where ever they need me to go, so you have to understand that,” and being that we were on one of our first dates (second, maybe third?) I felt a little discouraged. Of course, I had no idea that I would end up following her around Florida. I did learn the lengths to which Robyn would go for her company not too long after her disclaimer. Like being involved in a car crash after work, but still turning back around to double check that she turned off a piece of equipment. Or, a year later, working 14 hour days for 28 days in a row, while coming home and sometimes doing more work. She is the true model for corporate loyalty (and interpersonal, too!).
With all of that said, I’m proud of my wife. She doesn’t look at leaving her job as a sacrifice, she looks at it as a privilege. I know she’s going to be an amazing mom and I feel blessed with the opportunity to support my family in this role as well. Our child will be the one to benefit the most from always having one of their moms with them during their most sensitive developmental stages – and nobody will miss a thing! At least that’s the idea … because you know, chances are, the kid will take their first steps with Nana and Papa or say their first word when we’re in the other room at cousin Alicia’s house. You can really only plan so much, we just want to do what we feel is best for our little one.
Anyway, I’m off to steal some frosting from Robyn’s ‘last day’ cake and call it a night.
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